Idle Thoughts I Barely Care About

Surely None Of You Will

Positive development: My primary care physician apparently over-diagnosed the thing on the bottom of my foot. Went all the way to Westwood to see a podiatrist, who said it was a mere callus, not the plantar wart (caused by a strain of HPV virus) the M.D. thought it was. He applied cryotherapy twice, the podiatrist simply shaved it right off. No pain, then or now.

Other non-negative note: Rec'd. both pension & Social Security today, & still had US$505.87 in the credit union & a twenty in my pants. Guess I can afford several turnouts at $30.00 each now.

Completely negative: Watching baseball on Peacock, & its few advertisers. Does NBCUniversal no longer have a sales staff? I'm more than ready for TikTok to be banned worldwide & all involved to be imprisoned if I see that effing advert once more. What a crock.If they can't get more than five or six sponsors, could the sponsors make a couple more commercials so we needn't see the same damn ones approximately 50+ times per game? Nor am I interested in any Peacock streaming series, let alone seeing the same promos over & over & over & over. And yes, we understand very well that "This copyrighted broadcast is presented by the authority of the Office of the Commissioner of Baseball. It may not be reproduced or retransmitted in any form, and the accounts and descriptions of this game may not be disseminated without express written consent." Most broadcasts only recite that once. I'm wearing out the mute button.

Good to see the Pale Hose beat the Houston Cheat-os. The South Siders might be fun in a Series w/ L.A.'s former Bums of Brooklyn. And maybe next yr. the Cubs & Sox can face off in the Series.

Mr. Know-It-All

How Your Gov't. Worked

But Not Any More, Not That It Was Much Better Then

Don't forget the hideous racism that was still enshrined in law. And the sexism. Filthy hypocrites.

The Heights Of Racist Absurdity

I do have better & more important things to do than re-post inane Nazi horseshit from the iNternet & make threats that idiots will call the police about (8647!) but something like this is so illustrative of how damnably stupid & hateful the wrong-wing of American politics is; how can I resist? I mean, the yout' really are all lazy sods, aren't they?

Nikki McCann Ramirez / Rolling Stone:

Right-Wingers Are Mad Anti-Welfare Ad Isn't Racist Enough  —  Sarah Huckabee Sanders has been attacked by her own party for depicting a lazy white guy named “Brad” in an ad about fraud  —  No racist Republican trope has survived the test of time quite like that of the “welfare queen.”

Lauren Green / Washington Examiner:   Huckabee Sanders slammed for ad featuring white man on welfare

The Post Millennial:   Sarah Huckabee Sanders skewered for ad making white man the face of welfare fraud in Arkansas

Mary Rooke / The Daily Caller:   New Republican Midterm Ad Betrays GOP's Critical Voting Bloc

Sean James / Mediaite:   Conservatives Skewer Sarah Huckabee Sanders Ad Depicting Young White Man as ‘Welfare Queen’

They certainly like the word "skewer".

The WashEx notes:

However, the portrayal of Brad was met with swift condemnation on social media by many conservative voices, who noted that white men are among the Republican Party’s most loyal voters.

“This is a massive own goal, @SarahHuckabee, and you should fire the consultants who made this ad,” Senior Counsel Internet Accountability Project Will Chamberlain wrote on X. “Do not portray your core voting bloc as losers, period.”

“Years ago, Democrats abandoned young white men and turned them into enemies for political purposes,” wrote Jake Bequette, a former NFL player and 2022 Senate candidate in Arkansas. “It was only a matter of time until Republicans explicitly did the same. That time is now. The crown is in the gutter for anyone who unapologetically fights for young white men.”

Speaking of losers, J.B. couldn't make it out of the '22 Republican primary. Poor widdle white boys, so abused. The DC:

Consultants have a stock slacker, and for a decade, that slacker has been a white male. They’re the butt of every sitcom joke, portrayed as an idiot in commercials; they are the cautionary tale in political ads. Meanwhile, every other demographic is the hero or victim of the white male slacker. The ultimate insult of Sanders’s ad is that the GOP is perpetuating this insanity.

Oh, my heart pumps piss for these whining weenies. Break out the tiny violin.

Marion Morrison Monday

Monday Modeling Story

Angels Season Over, Chargers Lose Again, Dodgers Win 100th In 10 [UP-DATED]

Looks as if the Angels, Chargers & Clippers will all suck for the foreseeable future. How are the Raiders doing?
3-0 is how. Pick a winner!

Baseball, however, looks to be sucking up to a loser. Good rant from Nancy Nall: What is this crap, Commissioner Manfred?

UP-DATE, 28 Sep.: Lest we forget, the University of Spoiled Children's Trojans also lost, whipped 41-27. Factoid: the Angels won 62 & lost 100, the mirror image of the Dodgers' record.

Current Economic Situation

From the customer before me: Two pints of Ben & Jerry's® & 22.3 oz. of Screamin' Sicilian Pizza®, US$20.97, put on a Mastercard. Yup, 21 bucks of debt for a junk food dinner & dessert. Making America Healthy Again!!

In other consumption news, purchased a 200 sq. ft. box of Kroger Aluminum Foil® for eight bones from a guy selling them from a folding table under an awning on the sidewalk. Retail at Ralphs: US$13.99! Six dollars saved, & I s'pose, open to charges of receiving stolen property & aiding & abetting. Come & get me, coppers!

Heard This Before?

Speechifyin'

How 'bout this one?

Ebola Up-Date

Mostly because the editor likes the image of the sign.

The World Forgot About Ebola. The Organization Fighting It Has Never Been More Worried

The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is on track to be the largest ever.

From WIRED, possibly paywalled. Headline's all you need. See y'all in the boneyard.

George Gershwin's Birthday Too

Gershwin & Coltrane, two of America's musical giants, born on the same date. Who'da thunk it?Gershwin died too young too.

Rising Discontent

Tens of thousands of people have marched in Madrid to protest against Spain’s housing crisis and ask for protective measures for tenants, anti-fraud measures, and a ban on evictions without alternative housing. The dramatic eviction Wednesday of an 87-year-old woman from the Madrid apartment she had lived in for decades became the latest flashpoint in the country’s housing crisis. (AP Video: Alicia León)

When will chicken-butt Americans stop bending over & start standing up & protesting, or even pretend to give a shit about an older woman in a wheelchair?

Senator "I Know Nutting! Nutting!"

In sad contrast w/ an American giant like John Coltrane, more of Alabama's Senior Senator & his tiny, simple mind:

To follow on from the furry kerfuffle (furkuffle?), the following caught my attention. Via RawStory: EXCLUSIVE: Close Trump ally admits he doesn’t read — as only his opinion matters.

“No, I read very little,” Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) told Raw Story. “I want my own opinion, not somebody else’s.”

Cheeses, this dumb-ass mo-fo is exactly 364 days younger than this reporter. Let's hear it for the State of Alabama & Southern Arkansas Univ. Good job, cracker morons!

There's more. (He may already be under robot control. Seriously.) I s'pect Sen. Potatobrain is functionally illiterate. People who say they don't read or don't like to read usually have trouble reading anything. That's why STOP signs are red & octagonal (For the illiterate, that means "eight-sided".) Because many of the sub-humans out there couldn't read their way out of a paper bag. And illiterate fucking dimbulbs are everything wrong w/ this shithole nation. When do we start dealing w/ this clear & present danger, & by any means necessary?

Brainstorming: How 'bout having the illiterate crackers replace the migrant farmworkers they want deported, & have the goobers work in the fields for board & room? The South seemed to like the idea 150+ yrs. ago.

His Masterpiece

Won't embed, but worth the listen, w/ live performances & alternative takes.

Coltrane's Centennial

Induction photograph, 1945.

Born on this date, 1926.J.C. died 17 July 1967, at the age of 40, killed by the pig society that drove him to drink, 50 yrs. too early.

Burning Tree?

Or "corrected" sunset?

How About Telling The Truth Instead Of "Talking"?

J.B. Shurk / American Thinker:
We Need To Talk About Democrats  —  People who celebrate political violence cannot be trusted. —  Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...  Fifteen years ago, a dark movie called We Need to Talk about Kevin told the story of a mother struggling to understand why her sociopathic teenaged son had gone on a murder spree at home and at school. In the same vein, we need to talk about Democrats.

O.K., let's "talk".

NH Libertarian Party endorses ‘assassination’ of elected Democrats

Do take a peep at The American Thinker. (Whose logo, disappointingly, is no longer Uncle Sam dropping a load on a tree stump.)

Many interesting items. Example:

Woke 1.0: A history of the world’s most Satanic movement in pictures
By Jeremy Egerer | Woke people are going to have to prove they’re not woke anymore if they want to return to polite society.

Th' hell? What peculiar planet or dimension do these crazed weirdoes live on or in? Certainly not this one.

The Wiki notes:

In the aftermath of Donald Trump's loss in the 2020 U.S. presidential election American Thinker published a variety of articles that had claims of election fraud. Faced with a lawsuit from Dominion Voting Systems, [co-founder] Lifson acknowledged that the site had relied upon "discredited sources who have peddled debunked theories".American Thinker likewise admitted that its election claims were "completely false and have no basis in fact" and that "it was wrong for us to publish these false statements."

Absolutely trustworthy.

[New Hampshire Public Radio item from Political Wire.]

Somewhat Later

Even Cap't. America Is Fed Up

From Daredevil #283, August 1990.

Just Who Exactly is "Mentally Ill"?

Chris Nesi / New York Post:
Sen. Tommy Tuberville claims ‘many’ airline pilots, air traffic controllers are ‘part of the furry community’  —  Fly the furry skies.  —  Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville claimed the airline industry is full of members of the “furry” subculture in a bizarre speech from the Senate floor connecting transgenderism to mental illness.
Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:   One of Our Senators Actually Thinks Airline Pilots Are Secretly Furries
Walter Einenkel / Daily Kos:   GOP senator freaks out over ‘furries’ flying the friendly skies

Charisma Madarang / Rolling Stone:   GOP Senator Ahead of Midterms: Furry Airline Pilots Are ‘Terrifying’

Steve Benen / MS NOW:   Alabama's Tuberville worries aloud about airline personnel joining ‘the furry community’

Where'd he get the bizarre delusion that airline personnel are furries, & what is the connection between furries & these imaginary "terrifying furries"? The only "mental illnesses" here are football & being a Republican spud. Total fucking incoherent weirdoes, all of them.

And Why Would I?

Taking A Break

Resting for the next lap of the proverbial rat race.

Fall cleaning 'phoning it in: There are items scheduled through the end of the month, mostly crap from the hard drive. See y'all in October, maybe ...— 30 —

Back To The Fifties!

The Comic Book Commie Fifties, That Is

Via Ten Bears; I thought this was an amusing addition.

Does anyone really believe this Red-baiting? This reporter is a child of the '50s, but by the mid-'60s this stuff was laughable propaganda. Joe McCarthy, anyone? Maybe you have to be 80 & stupid to swallow this now. Yet who's sucking up to Comm-u-niss China at this moment?

The Canucks Wanted to Kill Trump!!

In 1960!

T'row da bum out!! Off w/ his head!!

Still Early

Very Early Autumn

Summer Just Left

As The Planet Revolves

Damn, there are some cats in this one.I've no interest in petty stuff like days, wks., or months, but I do like to keep up w/ the seasons, not that any exist here.

Tired Of It All Tues.

73 wasted yrs. in this world of shit & pain surrounded by brain-dead doody-heads. And summer will be gone w/in an hr.Just purchased a stupid, indulgent belated birthday gift for myself. Don't feel any better, maybe when it arrives.

This not-eating thing has worked out well: Eight days to the end of the month & even after indulging myself I've over US$600.00 in the credit union & 18 bones in folding money. Not to mention many dollars in quarters saved for laundry but now made superfluous by WASHConnect, which infects one's 'phone.

Can't possibly spend more than 100 bucks on "necessities" between now & the end of the month, so I s'pose I can indulge myself in the 100+ simoleons of turnouts & other railroading junk I need/want. And of course, the more one buys at one time, the more one makes up for shipping costs. Wheeee!

Currently attempting to consolidate, organize & discard some things that have been piled up all over, many of which have ended up on the only flat surface available.

And elsewhere.

Not So Funny Now, Is It?

I'm not just a demon; I'm a Commie Red Demon!

Theo-Fascism On The March!

The New Republic is on it, & it's trouble. Read it.

Holy Wars

We Need to Talk About the Apocalypse

End-times prophecy, pro-war prayer circles, Democrats as demons: Christian dominionism’s influence is everywhere in the second Trump administration—and increasingly, within America itself. Can democracy survive the assault?

“When it comes to something like the relationship between the U.S. and Israel, I think they’ve been incredibly influential,” Taylor told me. “American bombs are accomplishing in the physical realm what they are also trying to accomplish in the spiritual realm.”

These bitches & the sons-thereof might bamboozle Lumpy into nuking us into The Appocalypse. Interestingly, the author doesn't mention that Rafael Cruz (TX Sen. Rafael "Ted" Cruz's parental unit) is a Dominionist.

Not Disappointed

Had no expectations that anyone would even acknowledge my existence for my birthday, & indeed I was not disappointed.

Low Ridin'

Musical Interlude

There are many versions of "Slave Driver".Wage-slave until you drop dead. Then imagine how cheap your funeral will be in the booming economy. Win-win!

Dr Oz: "I'll give you a number you'll never forget -- if we can get the average American to be so healthy, so with it, so vital that they just want to work a little longer, it's worth a trillion dollars to the US economy"

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) September 19, 2026 at 7:30 AM

I'd like to know if Dr. Oz has ever done physical labor in his life. Fuck him & the bullshit economy, which benefits only the already over-monied.

Further hypocrisy: Why aren't Republicans tarring this bastard w/ their Muslim/Islamist brush, as they do to virtually every other Mohammaden? "Making America Healthy Again" sounds like Sharia Law to me. Brought to our limited attention by MPS.

It's Yom Kippur!

Some people have one hell of a lot of atonement to do for war crimes & slumlording!

And stop believing in stories your ancient ancestors made up about sky-fairies who will forgive your sins & evil already.

State Of The Nation

Trump Turned The Tables Alright

Why do Republicans (& the rest of the world) hate America so much?

Great Minds Thinking Alike

WAR HISTORY ONLINE

Had the very same thought last night. Betty Cracker is a smart person.

The Arc de Participation as Nazi flak tower

I can imagine Trump's Last Stand taking place at his stupid arch.

Source material.

Amazing Space

Lemme tell ya Doc, it doesn't amaze this reporter any more. He fucking expects it. Cretinous morons, all of them!

Boebert Family Values

Surely No One Is Surprised

Daniel Hampton / Raw Story:

Lauren Boebert accused of sex with three staffers in complaint alleging $200K hush payment  —  An explosive sworn complaint filed with the House Ethics Committee alleges Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) carried on a sexual relationship with her district director in the office

TMZ.com:   LAUREN BOEBERT REJECTS ETHICS COMPLAINT ... Accusing Her of Affairs with Staff, Hush Money Payment

Jim Hᴏft / The Gateway Pundit:   Lauren Boebert Strongly Denies Sworn Ethics Complaint Alleging Affairs With Two Female Staffers and One Male Staffer — Matt Gaetz Responds After His Name Is Dragged Into Allegations

Erik Maulbetsch / Colorado Times Recorder:   Complaint Filed With House Ethics Committee Alleges Boebert Slept With Three of Her Congressional Staffers

Elizabeth Weibel / Breitbart:   Report: Rep. Lauren Boebert Accused of Having Sexual Relationships with Three Staffers

Will no one have uncoerced S-E-X w/ a Republican politican? Could be a problem for them.

The Sheep Look Up

Fall-in-line idiot at the end doesn't quite get how it all works, does he?

Anybody got any diesel?

73 & Counting ...

I can assure you I don't feel a day over 83.And I'd like to thank all for the sincere good wishes, presents, surprise party & so forth. It's so wonderful to have friends! (Who will cheerfully call the fucking police on me because I was righteously angry. W/ friends like that ...)

Vote For The Candidate That The Thug Union Opposes

Ted Rall & the LAPD.

LAPD Union Releases Attack Ad Against Nithya Raman’s Campaign

Who asked the dumb bastards for their opinion, & who in hell cares?

Burning Sage Saturday

One classic & a tolerably stupid Todd Rundgren production, recently & often heard over & over & over in truncated &/or covered forms in adverts on the telly.NB: Hank Snow (The Singing Ranger) is Canadian, b. 1914 in Brooklyn, Nova Scotia. He penned both the above classic* & "I'm Movin' On", which were enough for a lifetime career. Go Canada!!Still don't get it. Are ancient tunes less expensive, or are ad agency music directors admitting that today's music sucks may not even be up to yesterday's drivel?

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*Originally from an Australian number. Hank changed the locations.

Friday Night Fun W/ The Big Apple

A very impressive distraction for the end of yet another incredibly stupid wk.Read all about it. Inspiration.

Republicans Should Keep Lying, But Even Harder, Sez Republican

These deluded buffoons live in a sad fantasy world.

Lies? As Long As They "Resonate", It's Fine

Axios:
House GOP's top messenger: Socialism attack line “doesn't really resonate”  —  House Republicans' top messenger has three pieces of advice for candidates trying to survive the midterms: Call Democrats “communists,” don't gaslight voters on inflation — and trust your district if it tells you to deviate from President Trump.

Washington Post:
Why Democrats are starting to feel bullish about a midterm wave
Luke Fountain / CNBC:   Trump's $403 million war chest is finally being spent on the midterms. Now comes the hard part

NPR:   Republican ‘cavalry’ arrives with a Trump-backed $150 million ad blitz in key races

Mike Catalini / Los Angeles Times:   Trump pushes his $5,000 ‘dividend’ pledge if GOP wins midterms. Republican candidates, not as much

Republican racist (Redundant?) Bo French has retrieved "Bolshevik" from the dustbin of history.

French has begun to direct his venom Rosenthal’s way. Texas Monthly’s Robert Downen, the foremost chronicler of French’s rise and the Texas far-right, recently reported on a fundraising email from the campaign that accused Rosenthal, who is Jewish, of “mocking Christianity” and compared him to the Bolsheviks who killed Russia’s ruling Romanov family—a trope with a deep antisemitic history.

"Commie Jew Comm-u-niss!"

An Even More Immediate Problem

“Democratic consultants are privately encouraging their battleground candidates to avoid talking about artificial intelligence regulations out of fear that powerful tech groups will unleash a tidal wave of spending against them ahead of November,” Politico reports.

Even more imminent than the robot danger is filthy rich tech group Nazis screwing things up w/ their lying advertising & propaganda. No more private financing of elections, dammit!!

[Political Wire]

Friday Freak Out

Blues Guitars

My life too. Oh, the sufferation.Bonus live track:

Today's Texan Piece Of Work

What an absolute shithole of ignorant racists.

David French / New York Times:
Watching Bigots Erupt
Tim Murphy / Mother Jones:   Bo French Sent a Tweet So Racist, His Own Party Finally Took Notice. It's Just the Tip of the Iceberg.

Ramsey Touchberry / Washington Examiner:   John Cornyn won't vote for Texas GOP candidate Bo French over ‘racist comments’

Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:   Why Karl Rove, a father of the modern Texas GOP, is voting for a Democrat

Mark Silk / RNS:   Texas Republicans excuse bigotry all the time. This time they couldn't.

The Washington Sun:   Texas Democrat Sees a Fundraising Surge Following Opponent's Racist Posts

ABC News:   Cornyn says he won't vote for Texas Republican Bo French after candidate's controversial post

Alexander Bolton / The Hill:   Cornyn won't vote for Bo French in Texas race

Carlos Nogueras Ramos / The Texas Tribune:   One group has stayed mostly mum on Bo French's racist post — Texas' oil and gas industry

The Mother Jones item has more hot poop on Bo French:

In 2025, around the same time the Tarrant GOP demanded Texas leaders acknowledge new Islamic centers as an “invasion” and “dangerous threat,” French polled his X followers: “Who is a bigger threat to America?” The two choices: “Muslims” and “Jews.”

Of course he's astoundingly ignorant:

To the extent that his candidacy is focused on the Texas Railroad Commission at all, it is because French believes the oil industry, too, must be purged of “the influence of radical Islam.” French, who did not respond to a request for comment, referred to Jim Wright, the Republican commissioner he defeated, as “Jihadi Jim” and alleged that Wright’s ties to a Saudi-owned company’s petrochemical facility had allowed “Islamic values and laws” to infiltrate the commission.

Bo's 90+ yrs. late on that. And RNS looks at football as religion & identity in Texas.

State Of The Nation: Beat To Shit

Ed Cara / Gizmodo:
71% of Americans Say They're Completely Exhausted
Fox News:   Nearly 3 in 4 Americans are battling the same exhausting health problem, CDC reveals

Erica Sloan / Washington Post:   Americans are tired. Women and young adults, most of all.

What? You think mature male citizens aren't fucking sick & tired of the Gawddam non-stop bullshit too?

I've noticed plenty of exhaustion: Uno, dos, tres, cuatro, cinquo.

In conclusion, we're all exhausted:

Sure, I'll Believe Anything

Fox News:

GOP lawmakers pump brakes on Trump's $5K check promise: ‘Where are you getting the money?’  —  President Donald Trump's promise of a big payout for Americans if Republicans win the midterms is getting a rocky reception on Capitol Hill.  —  Several Republicans outright oppose the $5,000 check promise …

Matt Weidinger / Washington Examiner:   Don't count on those $5,000 Trump dividend checks

Count in one hand & crap in the other; see which piles up sooner: Shit, or Fat Donnie's bribe money. Cultist cretins & suckers. It'd be funny if any of the chumps figured it out. They couldn't be any denser.

More Republican Nazis

Or Are They Nazi Republicans?

This is a joke, you dumb bastards. Like, humor, man.The Handbasket found new ones & goes into depth about some already mentioned.

Impressionistic

Who Are The Real Extremists?

Allegedly Comm-u-niss Democrats, or self-admitted Nazi Republicans?Erick-Woods Erickson pulls head from keister, wipes poop from eyes, & takes a look around:

The Midwestern Führerbunker Driving the Right Off the Cliff

and digby has a "gift link" to Jamelle Bouie.

Jamelle Bouie has an important piece in the NY Times today (gift link) about the GOP’s Nazi problem, and it is a problem. He points out that there is a whole generation of younger staffers, some of whom have been exposed during this campaign and others who are actually working in the top reaches of the government under Trump. His administration is crawling with white supremacists and neo-Nazis. But he also provides some important historical context to show how we got here.

How did we get here? It is a mystery. Just guessing, but a long tradition of white supremacy, Yankee religiosity, chattel slavery, & the Confederacy might have somethnig to do w/ it.